On 9/30/23 10:36, Sean Anderson wrote:
When ll_entry_get is used on a list entry ll_entry_declare'd in the same
file, the lack of alignment on the access will override the
ll_entry_declare alignment. This causes GCC to use the default section
alignment of 32 bytes. As list entries are not necessarily 32-byte aligned,
this will cause a gap in the linker list, corrupting further entries.
As a specific example, get_fs_loader uses DM_DRIVER_GET(fs_loader) in the
same file where U_BOOT_DRIVER(fs_loader) is present. This causes a crash
when walking the driver list.
Fix this by adding appropriate alignment to all accesses.
Fixes: 42ebaae3a33 ("common: Implement support for linker-generated arrays")
Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <[email protected]>
---
include/linker_lists.h | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linker_lists.h b/include/linker_lists.h
index f9a2ee0c762..e0c8a01b9ba 100644
--- a/include/linker_lists.h
+++ b/include/linker_lists.h
@@ -209,7 +209,8 @@
*/
#define ll_entry_get(_type, _name, _list) \
({ \
- extern _type _u_boot_list_2_##_list##_2_##_name; \
+ extern _type __aligned(4) \
+ _u_boot_list_2_##_list##_2_##_name; \
_type *_ll_result = \
&_u_boot_list_2_##_list##_2_##_name; \
_ll_result; \
@@ -229,7 +230,7 @@
* @_list: name of the list
*/
#define ll_entry_ref(_type, _name, _list) \
- ((_type *)&_u_boot_list_2_##_list##_2_##_name)
+ ((_type __aligned(4) *)&_u_boot_list_2_##_list##_2_##_name)
OK, so this causes an error in clang. And it isn't really necessary
because the entry is already declared at this point.
So I guess the right fix is to replace DM_DRIVER_GET with DM_DRIVER_REF in
get_fs_loader. But this seems like a really big footgun. You can use the
wrong one and there are no errors except at runtime. I wonder if we can add
a warning of some kind?
--Sean
/**
* ll_start() - Point to first entry of first linker-generated array
